Fox Mahoney has published some excellent Motion tutorials here on FCP.co. This time, he really takes the tools in Motion to a new level with this experiment in building custom behaviors. We learnt a lot.

When Anders Utterstrom watched the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics from Rio, he had an idea. Could he recreate the Anthony Howe kinetic sculpture that accompanied the flame? Time to start experimenting with Apple's Morion and 3D objects!

Want moving textures in Final Cut Pro X? Plugin building expert Fox Mahoney shows us how to construct a moving water texture in Motion and publish it to FCPX. Great knowledge that will extend the capabilities of 3D text even further. Link to the free finished moving water texture generator plugin also included!

In this week's new episode of MacBreak Studio, the guys take a look at building 3D objects in Motion using mObject. They have also announced a live round table chat this Thursday featuring some well known FCPX experts.

]]>Peter WigginsWed, 18 Jun 2014 10:41:31 +0000http://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motion/1440-making-3d-scenes-in-motion-with-mobjectFly around a webpage by using the 3D camera in Apple's Motionhttp://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motion/1410-fly-around-a-webpage-by-using-the-3d-camera-in-apple-s-motion

It's been a week of tutorials here on FCP.co and we thought that we would end it with a great Motion demo from Doug Suiter. Want to fly around a webpage? Now you can.

Hot on the heels of their new creative editing lessons, Ripple Training has just published a new 'Getting Started with Motion 5' set of tutorials. They are also offering 25% off until March the 3rd on this product as well.

Better late than never. Not even out of timezone communications and the search for a stable wifi connection can stop us publishing this week's MacBreak Studio. It's all about text animations in Motion5.

If you're a fan of Motion then you are in for a treat. Andy Neil has published some of his full length tutorials on YouTube. This means of course that you get his great in-depth instruction on building graphics for free!

Maybe this week's episode of MacBreak Studio should be titled 'Making particles dance in Motion with Steve Martin!' A great tutorial showing the power of emitters and behaviours.

]]>Peter WigginsTue, 05 Nov 2013 19:40:15 +0000http://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motion/1273-making-particles-dance-in-motion-on-macbreak-studioHow to track points in Motion, all the gotchas, but none of the painhttp://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motion/1268-how-to-track-points-in-motion-all-the-gotchas-but-none-of-the-pain

It seems simple to track a point in Motion and attach an object, right? Wrong, it's not as simple as you think and there are many gotchas along the way. Hopefully this MacBreak Studio will save some of the pain encountered when you try to link things together.

When Mark and Steve recorded this MacBreak Studio, they probably didn't realise it would get eclipsed by the Mac Pro and other announcements from Apple yesterday. Some good Motion tips on behaviors in this episode.

When we think of colour correction with the Apple Pro Apps, the colour board in Final Cut Pro is normally the first thing that springs to mind. Motion however has a lot of built in filters that go beyond the board's capabilities.

PACKT Publishing have published the Apple Motion 5 Cookbook. Written by Nick Harauz, it's billed as '110 recipes to build simple and complex motion graphics in the blink of an eye.' We take a good squint.

What are cinemagraphs? In this article we show you a recent broadcast feature made up entirely of cinemagraphs and we also look at how they are made using FCP and Motion.

]]>Peter WigginsWed, 08 May 2013 15:47:19 +0000http://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motion/1125-creating-cinemagraphs-with-final-cut-pro-and-motionAnimating text in Motion 5 using a custom made behavior and keyframeshttp://www.fcp.co/motion/tutorials-for-apple-motion/1124-animating-text-in-motion-5-using-a-custom-made-behavior-and-keyframes

You would think that from the title of the article that this new episode of MacBreak Studio is covering the basics on behaviors. You would be wrong as it gets complex and very interesting very quickly.